The Shape of Snakes - Couverture souple

Walters, Minette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144720798X ISBN 13 : 9781447207986

Editeur : Pan Books, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets - and somewhere is West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter.

Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - apparently against reason - that Annie was murdered. But whatever the truth about Annie - whether she was as mad as her neighbours claimed, whether she lived in squalor as the police said - something passed between her and Mrs Ranelagh in the moment of death which binds this one woman to her cause for the next twenty years.

But why is Mrs Ranelagh so convinced it was murder when by her own account Annie died without speaking? And why would any woman spend twenty painstaking years uncovering the truth - unless her reasons are personal . . . ?

Revue de presse :

“No other first-division crime novelist, in such a short career, has written with such thematic variety. The only factors that unite her works are a penchant for dark psychological perception – and their excellence.”
–The Times, London

“Walters peels the layers from everyone’s terrible secrets. The results are stunning.”
–Winnipeg Free Press

“Minette Walters has emerged as one of the [mystery] genre’s superior writers. Her novels are probing and intelligent, her characters riveting and her plots subtle and demanding.”
–Ottawa Citizen
From the Hardcover edition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 144720798X
• ISBN 13: 9781447207986
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464